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Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473–1543) |
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Birth name: Niklas Koppernigk; Mikołaj Kopernik; Nikolaus Kopernikus; Copernicus; Niclas Koppernigk | ||
Description | Polish astronomer, jurist, economist, mathematician, legal scholar and physicist | ||
Date of birth/death | 19 February 1473 | 24 May 1543 | |
Location of birth/death | Toruń | Frombork | |
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Authority file |
ratione salua manente nemo eni[m] conuenientiorem allegabit q[am] ut magnitudine[m] orbium multitudo t[em]p[or]is metiatur, ordo sphae- rarum seq[ui]tur in hunc modu[m]: a summo capientes initium. Prima et sup[re]ma omnium est stellarum fi xarum sphaera, seip[s]am et omnia continens ideoque immobilis Nempe uni- rsi locus ad quem mo tus et (Concentric diagram of the heliocentric solar system with Sun and planets, captions:) I. Stellarum fixarum sphaera immobilis Sphere of the fixed immovable stars II. Saturnus anno .XXX. reuoluitur III. Iouis .XII. annorum reuolutio IIII. Martis bima reuolutio 2 years V. Telluris cum Luna an. re[volutio]. Earth and Moon a year VI. Veneris nonimestris 9 months VII. Merc[urii] LXXX?. Dieru[m] 80 days Sol. et po s i tio cae terorum omnium syderium conferatur Nam quod aliquo modo illam etiam mutari existimant aliqui: nos aliam cur ita appareat in deductione motus terrestris assignabimus causam. Sequnt[ur] errantium primus Saturnus: qui xxx anno suum complet circu itu[m] post hunc Iupiter duodecinali revolutione mobilis. Deind[e] Mars qui biennio circuit. Quartum in ordine a[n]nua revolutio locum obtinet, in quo terram cum orbe lunari tanquam epicyclo conteneri diximus. Quinto loco Venus nono mense reduciturCompare Latin text at rharriso.sites.truman.edu Copernicus De revolutionibus.
Jagiellonian Library | |||
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Native name | Biblioteka Jagiellońska | ||
Parent institution | Jagiellonian University | ||
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Coordinates | 50° 03′ 41.4″ N, 19° 55′ 24.96″ E | ||
Established | 1364 | ||
Website | www.bj.uj.edu.pl | ||
Authority file |
1543: transferred to Tiedemann Giese, bishop of Chełmno
1554: transferred to Georg Joachim Rheticus in Košice
1574: transferred to Valentinus Otho in Heidelberg
1603: transferred to Jakob Christmann in Heidelberg
1614: transferred to Jan Amos Komenský
1667: transferred to Otto von Nostitz in Jawor Śląski
1675: transferred to Nostitz family in Prague
1945: transferred to National Museum Library in Prague
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